Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) applications for bridges frequently rely on some form of quantitative baseline characterization of the performance or condition of the structure. The baseline characterization may be very local with a focus on specific structural components or global in nature focusing on the overall structural system characteristics. Global level characterizations are acco…
Effective management of road links composed of road sections and bridges requires the determination of preservation strategies that maximize stakeholder benefits. Solving such an optimization problem is challenging since the objective function and constraints are mostly non-linear, and the execution of interventions is discrete. This type of problem can, however, be solved using mixed-intege…
In this paper, the evolution of the railway traffic during the last century is considered in order to estimate the remaining service life of a historical bridge. The selected case-study concerns the El Ourit Bridge designed in 1889 by Gustave Eiffel and located close to the town of Tlemcen, in Algeria. The response of the bridge to train loads is numerically evaluated using a finite element …